Blogging Through the Years and the Changes
So I've been blogging since January 29, 2009. Yup, I'm one of the earlier bloggers, back when there weren't too many other bloggers around. The blog started as a whim as a contest entry to win an ARC of Rachel Vincent's Pride. Needless to say, I didn't win, but I thought I'd keep the blog up for awhile since I went to all the trouble of making it!
I don't have any saved pictures of all the changes in templates I've gone through. Mostly it was one of the free ones from whatever website I used at the time! I can't even remember that anymore either! Lol! It was two years ago or maybe three that I won a custom design and had the design you see now! I still love it so I've never bothered to change it!
Those early blogging years were pretty rough though. I did find some bloggers to follow though who shared the same interest in paranormal books. It was a rough time, as you can see I wrote 96 posts. And they're kind of incoherent! I didn't follow any kind of structure. I still don't really. I've always been of the mind to write the kinds of posts/reviews that I'd want to read, so I touch on all the things I'd like to see in a review of a book I am contemplating about reading. The early years I really had no clue what I was doing! LOL!
2010 was a better year with over 400 posts and the year after that almost 700! For some reason things took a dip in 2015, I think I can chalk that up to losing my job at the beginning of that year and I just kind of did the basic posts. It was rough and scary not knowing what I was going to do. Then it seemed things were crazy busy last year and I didn't even top 500. I guess this is chalked up to life. Growing up and having to do more adult things. Blah. Also sometimes it's because I never know what other post to write up besides my reviews and memes I participate it. Which is why I joined this challenge this year. It's still hard sometimes because I can't always figure out what I want to write up even with the helpful list! I am getting an idea or two occasionally as we saw last month, but this month I feel dried up and it makes me panic and that's when I turn on Netflix or something! LOL!
I still enjoy blogging though and don't see myself quitting anytime soon. Though the posts may not be as frequent as they were in my heyday when the blogosphere suddenly took off, but I tend to still be around for awhile because seriously it's way too much fun discussing books and bookish things with other booklovers! As I have mentioned in the past, I was sorely lacking that in my youth when I was the only one in my circle who liked reading back then!
